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Looking forward to 2009
First on the list of this year's points of interest is the anticipated Portland Museum of Art Biennial, which opens in early April.
By KEN GREENLEAF | December 31, 2008

Boston-area art spaces look to Asia this winter
Gallery-goers with an affinity for art from Asia will have plenty of reason for excitement with a handful of enticing shows this winter.
By EVAN J. GARZA | December 29, 2008

White album

Duane Slick's minimalist meditations
The best of the work on view in "Duane Slick and Critical Distance," at Rhode Island College's Bannister Gallery (600 Mount Pleasant Avenue, Providence, through January 8), is what you might call painters' paintings.
By GREG COOK | December 29, 2008

Year in pictures

Imagery 2008

By PHOENIX STAFF | December 24, 2008

Worth another look

Intriguing views of a warped world
In 2008, real estate and jobs dominated local art news.
By GREG COOK | December 23, 2008

Poetic sense

Age of art
For the last end-of-the-year review I had to rely on the kindness and opinions of others, having just started reviewing again after a long hiatus.
By KEN GREENLEAF | December 23, 2008

Year in Art: Beyond the gloom

Continuing cheer in dark times
The Boston art scene felt muted for much of 2008, with 10 galleries closing and the death of two local icons: Harriet Casdin-Silver and Jules Aarons.
By GREG COOK | December 22, 2008

One city, many angles

Artists capture the city for Greenhut's fourth biennial Portland Show
Artists capture the city for Greenhut's fourth biennial Portland Show
By IAN PAIGE | December 17, 2008

Connected

"NetWorks 2008" at AS220, 5 Traverse, and the NAM
In 2004, AS220's StinkTank put out a paper titled "Compost and the Arts."
By GREG COOK | December 16, 2008

Bittersweet sendoff

One last chance to catch Sweetthieves in the act
You're killing me Sweetthieves.
By CHRIS CONTI | December 16, 2008

Grand seductions

Marriage at the Gardner, decoration at Montserrat, Milton Rogovin at Kayafas
If you've been desirous of an eminently tasteful exhibit that undermines the sanctity of marriage, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's "The Triumph of Marriage: Painted Cassoni of the Renaissance" may be for you.
By GREG COOK | December 16, 2008

End-of-year exhibitions reveal mystery and beauty

Laura Baring-Gould and Laura Evans at Boston Sculptors Gallery, ‘Regarding Mystery and Beauty’ at GASP, Korean-born artists at Smith College Museum of Art
Think it’s impossible to find a newish gallery show at the end of December? Think again.
By EVAN J. GARZA | December 16, 2008

A behind-the-scenes look at those big-deal auctions

Up For Bid
After the auction began, Vincent, a collector with his eye on a Fernand Leger print, offered his thoughts.
By PHILIP EIL | December 10, 2008

’Tis the season to buy local

Tips for keeping your holiday gift-giving bucks in the ocean state
Frog and Toad, an idiosyncratic gift store on Providence’s East Side, is your quintessential mom and pop shop.
By IAN DONNIS | December 12, 2008

I wanna rock

LaMontagne’s vision for Boston art
In 1982, a group of local hardcore punk bands released what would turn out to be a landmark compilation album, This Is Boston, Not L.A.
By GREG COOK | December 12, 2008

Geeky gifts 101

An introduction to buying things you don’t completely understand
“Smelly Yankee Candle for Grandma? Check. Tie for Dad? Got it. Toy dump truck for Tommy? Yup. Man, this holiday shopping stuff is easy. Now, who’s next? . . . Um. . . Hmmm.”
By GEORGIANA COHEN | December 11, 2008

Instant messages

Cindy Bernard at the Mills Gallery, Do-Ho Suh at Tufts, ‘Human Nature(S)’ At The Worcester Art Museum
The immediacy of communicating personal information that Internet culture and high bandwidth provide is not part of the new exhibition at the Mills Gallery, which eschews digital technology altogether.
By EVAN J. GARZA | December 09, 2008

Seeking Relevance

A MECA faculty show goes didactic
Here in Maine we're used to living in a mediated landscape. Painters have been reframing how we see the shore and woods for generations, defining what's worth looking at for a larger audience.
By KEN GREENLEAF | December 03, 2008

The Apocalypse versus stupid human tricks

Paul Chan, Adel Abdessemed, and Andrew Neumann
Among the most poetic and moving artwork to come out of 9/11 is Paul Chan’s series of videos The 7 Lights .
By GREG COOK | December 12, 2008

Sex and food and Abraham Lincoln

Gift books for every (perverse) taste
We put out a call to our contributors to suggest appropriate holiday gift books and what do we get back?
By PHOENIX STAFF | December 05, 2008

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